Category Archives: Web

I quickly threw this together. The following script would mark all Gmail email coming in to be read if it’s Monday through Friday between the hours of 9am and 5pm. This is done at http://script.google.com with the API from https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/gmail/.

Don’t forget to click on Resources > Current Project’s Triggers and have it run once a minute!

Ars Technica has a good article on the recent re-implementation of the @font-face tag which is supported in Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4. Basically, it is allowing web designers to have a font used in a web page that is stored on the web server. For example, here I am using the font “Jellyka“:

If you have the latest Firefox or Safari, you see this properly!

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Don't forget to take a look at this page in IE. Quite different! Which is why it is still important to do a browser check.

Notice you can still highlight the text since it is not an image, just text with that font applied.

To encode a video into these formats, you can use the free SUPER media encoder (scroll to the bottom of the page for the link). It does have the best UI, but it works. I would suggest familiarizing yourself with their site (which needs a massive design lift) and test like crazy. Sooner or later, everything will be supporting import/export of this format.

There is a lot more to HTML 5 than just audio and video. I'll post more when I have time.

If you're like me, your company doesn't allow for listening to internet radio stations at work. So I looked for a way to record the radio on my Mac and, of course, there's a great free app called “Radio Recorder” that does just that and goes the extra mile — it will split the songs and tag them with the information provided by the feed, and then import them into your iTunes library in a designated playlist. This works with some stations but not all. For example, with WOXY it works great (too bad it's only a 64k feed) but with KEXP it does not. I guess it's dependent on what's available in the stream. It works with most ShoutCast feeds.

Definitely a must have app. I'm sure there's a Windows app that does a similar thing.

One rub though, if you use the split song feature, it won't always grab the song at the beginning. It grabs it when it receives the new song data, which might also cut a song short. So you won't have perfect mp3's from the radio, but it's better than nothing.

I think a nice option would be either a single file with chapters as new songs or code in some overlap — copy 5 seconds of the last file as the beginning of the next file and the same with the end.

Microsoft has released JSLeaks Detector which finds memory leaks in Internet Explorer. With this and Drip, you'll be well on your way to pulling less hair out until you realize it's something else completely.